Jhalfarajie

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2-3

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Curries & Bugles: A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj

By Jennifer Brennan

Published 1990

  • About

Another typical sight, one of greater interest to the menfolk, was the women walking at noon to the fields carrying victuals. They carried flat reed baskets on their heads with thick oven-baked unleavened bread wrapped in a napkin and some cooked vegetables. On the basket rested a small pitcher full of lassi, buttermilk. Tired and hungry, the man kept looking towards the village till he caught sight of his wife ... He stopped work when she came near and walked to his well under a tre